Hong Kong- Tung Choi
street pet markets. Located on a bustling Hong Kong street filled with
stores selling various aquaria supplies as well as fish (and hatchling Carettochelys
insculpta for 40 HKD ($5 US), there are four primary reptile shops housed in
second floor rooms. A wide variety of rare species are available in these
stores including such species as Cuora aurocapitata and Cuora pani in
Oscar Shiu's old haunts, the Urban Jungle, during a Spring 2002 visit. Many of these
animals appeared to be captive bred and included many of the same species that one would
find in pet stores in the US or the EU (Geochelone carbonaria, Testudo graeca, Testudo
horsfieldi, Pyxis arachnoides, and Geochelone elegans).